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CAD/PDM Solution Helping Designers to Share Data

CAD/PDM Solution Helping Designers to Share Data

Customer challenge

Fermat is a leading producer of horizontal boring and milling machines with worldwide operations. This customer needed to manage his 2D and 3D CAD data to handle concurrent product development in two locations, and connect product data to his ERP system. His data was previously shared just on a common network disk, product data was retyped between CAD and ERP. This leads to many errors and mistyping. Designers were rewriting data in wrong versions.

Project goals

Two main project goals have been identified which are an automate version management of CAD data. In addition to that, Link CAD data with an existing ERP system to increase productivity, streamline business processes and eliminate errors.

Solution

The solution defined by Arkance Systems and Fermat is based on 4 pillars : - CAD, Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection and ERP integration for a producer of horizontal boring and milling machines – using Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault Professional and the ERP Connector (a configurable add-on application developed by Arkance Systems). - User trainings, setting up data replication. - Linking design teams and design data with business workflows helped to avoid errors and streamline data propagation in the company. - The ERP system now always contains clean CAD data

Business outcome

The existing automatic management of CAD and Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection data, change management and the ERP link has streamlined customer's business processes, bill of materials and product documentation.

Conclusion

The combination of Autodesk CAD/Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection tools accompanied a custom software development and implementation services. Deep knowledge of customer’s design and business processes helped to automate day-to-day operations, go faster on market and increase productivity.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 300
  • 2019-12-14

    Autodesk solutions

  • Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
  • Inventor
  • Vault Professional

    Services provided

  • Custom Application Development
  • System Implementation
  • Configuration & Deployment
  • Business Process Assessment & Documentation
  • Product Training

    Customer industry

  • Design & Manufacturing
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